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Nearly eight years after Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her Salt Lake City bedroom at knifepoint, the woman who pleaded guilty to the 2002 kidnapping is headed to prison.

Wanda Eileen Barzee was sentenced Friday to two terms of up to 15 years in prison in back-to-back hearings in state and federal court.

The terms will be served concurrently. Barzee has agreed to testify against her now-estranged husband, Brian David Mitchell, in the kidnapping of Smart, who was held for nine months.

HARTFORD, Conn.

Former wrestling exec

receives GOP Senate nod

Connecticut Republicans have endorsed former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Chris Dodd.

McMahon beat out former Congressman Rob Simmons and Fairfield County money manager Peter Schiff for the Republican nomination Friday.

Simmons said he will force a party primary in August. He received enough votes at the convention to do so.

RIVERSIDE, Calif.

Parents are sentenced

in death of diabetic teen

A Southern California couple convicted of murder after their teenage daughter slipped into a diabetic coma and died have been sentenced to prison.

A judge on Friday sentenced Gregory Latham, 63, to 17 years to life and his wife, Yvonne, 53, to 15 years to life. A jury on March 24 convicted the couple of second-degree murder and willful child endangerment.

Their daughter Nanette Latham, 17, was found unresponsive in the family's squalid mobile home in Cabazon in 2006.

DENVER

Police: Man had sex with

girl, 12, later found dead

An 18-year-old Colorado man has been arrested and accused of having sex with a 12-year-old girl whose body was recovered this week in an irrigation ditch, police said.

Greeley police said the arrest of Robert Laurencio Montoya, a former boyfriend of sixth-grader Kayleah Wilson, is unrelated to the homicide investigation involving her death.